Kempley is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, close to the border with Herefordshire.
The village maintains the Kempley Tardis (a redundant telephone box) - a National Lottery funded project supported by English Heritage.
The project, which is run by the Friends of Kempley Churches, aims to archive and document the entire social, economic and cultural history of the village.
St Mary's Church, Kempley has in its chancel "the most complete set of Romanesque frescos in northern Europe",[2] including the Christ in Majesty painting created in about 1120.
The church was planned by the Lord of the Manor and major landowner, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, because St Mary's was too far away from the main centres of population in the parish at Kempley Green and Fishpool, and liable to flooding.